Data Webs
Last week I went to an Oxford meeting of participants in a project called BioImageWeb. This brings together scientists, developers, librarians, publishers and others with the aim of making it much easier to reliably find scientific images online. It's still early days, but I think this initiative is already showing promise.
In the meantime, the leader of BioImageWeb, David Shotton, a bioinformatics researcher at the Department of Zoology in Oxford, is organising a meeting called 'Data Webs' at Imperial College, London on Wednesday 28 June. It will discuss general issues around how best to enable scientific data to be shared and reused across the web, particularly looking at Semantic Web- and Web 2.0-type approaches. There's a great speaker line-up, including my Nature colleague, Ben Lund, who will be speaking about Connotea.
More details of the meeting are available here (50K PDF).
